| United States - Constitutional amendments - 1924 - 940 pages
...or inheritance taxes 319 Exemption from taxation 320 Eminent domain 327 Telegraphs and telephones. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods 104 Communication by telegraph or telephone between different States is interstate commerce 118 Bear... | |
| United States - Constitutional amendments - 1924 - 936 pages
...by telegraph or telephone between different States is interstate commerce ________________ 118 Bear the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods -------------------- 128 Penalty for failure to transmit and deliver messages _______________ 164 Ordinance... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 964 pages
...post-roads. Rev. St. § 3964. The complainant accepted the provisions of this law of congress in 1867. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. Telegraph companies are subject to the regulating power of congress in respect to their foreign and... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1054 pages
...were subject to the regulating power of Congress in respect to their foreign and interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies ore instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself." In this opinion the italics in... | |
| Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1925 - 1436 pages
...Indiana, 207, or by wireless, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Commonwealth (1914), 218 Mass. 558. al. The grave consequences which it is asserted must...to levy a progressive tax be recognized involves in Telegraph Co. v. Texas (1882), 105 US 460. "Other commerce deals only with persons or with visible... | |
| Charles Willis Needham - Commerce - 1925 - 772 pages
...v. Texas, 105 US 460, in which case Mr. Chief Justice Waite, speaking for the court, said, p. 464 : "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." While the general principles applied in these cases are not to be denied, there is a class of cases... | |
| Law - 1920 - 490 pages
...from the influence of state regulation." It had been previously said by the Supreme Court that "the telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce...instruments of commerce and their business is commerce itself.81 In the Croninger Case, the Express Company set up as a defense to the action to •ecover... | |
| Law - 1882 - 542 pages
...were subject to the regulating power of Congress in respect to their foreign and inter-State business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instrument! of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. They do their transportation in different... | |
| Law - 1916 - 512 pages
...States Supreme Court that intercourse by the telegraph between the states is interstate commerce : that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods; that both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself : that they... | |
| Law - 1899 - 538 pages
...companies occupy nearly the same relation to commerce as carriers of news that a railroad company does as carrier of goods. Both companies are Instruments of commerce and their business is commerce itself; and its Interstate business may be regulated by congress and not by the State. Pensacola Telegraph... | |
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